Improvement in ice-creepers



UNITED STATES PATENT DFFIGE.

FRANK LEUTHY, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN lCE-CREEPERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 193,452, dated July 24,1877 application filed February 3, 1877. I

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK LEUTHY, of the city of Philadelphia and Stateof Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement inIce-Creepers, which improvement is fully set forth in the followingspecification, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, inwhich Figure 1 is a perspective view of my creeper attached to a shoeand fixed in the position intended when the wearer is walking on theice. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the shank or boot-plate. Fig. 3 isa plan view of the creeper-plate ready for bending, and Fig. 4 is aperspective view of the same bent and ready to be pivoted to the plateA.

The object of my invention is to produce an ice-creeper that will belight, cheap, easily ap plied, and not liable to break or get out oforder, and also one that can be permanently attached to the boot or shoein such a manner that when not desired as a protection against slippingit can be turned around against the inside face of the boot or shoeheel, as shown in do ted lines, Fig. 1.

My invention consists of the two T-shaped plates, A and B, securedpermanently together by a pivot, O, on which the creeperplate B isrotated.

The shank or boot-plate A is intended to be securely attached to theshank of the boot or shoe by screws inserted in the holes3 3 3, and ismade of any suitable light metal, and about two inches in length, havinga hole drilled in the center of its length for the pivot G, and twoshort pins or studs, a a, fixed at equal distances from the pivot-hole,for the purpose of holding the creeper-plate B in the desired positionwhen either in or out of use.

The creeper-plate B is made of thin springsteel, and is about two and ahalf inches in length, having a hole, b, drilled in the longer arm, forthe pivot O, and a small oval hole, b, which fits over the pins a or ain the plate A when it is in or out of use as a creeper as the case maybe.

The outer edge of the shorter arm is cut into saw-teeth, aboutone-fourth of an inch in length, and bent at a right angle on the dottedline a; a; with the face of the plate. The stem or longer arm is gentlycurved to form a spring, (when pivoted to the plate A,) after which itis properly tempered, and pivoted to plate A, which completes the deviceready to be attached to the boot or shoe.

When it is attached to the boot or shoe the wearer has only to rotatethe creeper-plate B forward and spring it over the pin a, when itissecurely fixed as a protection against slipping; or, on entering ahouse, he has only to reverse the motion and spring it over the pin a,where it will be out of the way until required. t

I claim as my invention- In an ice-creeper, the combination of plate A,provided with locking-pins a and a, and adapted to be secured to thesole of a boot or shoe, of plate B, curved to form a spring, andprovided with holes to receive the lockingpins, all arranged andconstructed substantially as shown and set forth.

7 FRANK LEUTHY.

Witnesses:

WM. H. MORISON, FRIEDRICH HARTMANN.

